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  • Laura and Ali complete London marathons

    Laura runs the 2010 London marathon and Ali the London "Run to the Best 2009 half marathon.

    24/06/2010

  • Past sponsor children reunited

    Past sponsor children who are now International cuisine chefs attend the opening of our complex and cook for 400 guests!

    23/06/2010

  • Jacob and his crosses

    Jacob Thomas carves wooden hand held crosses for distribution to patients in a Norwich hospital.

    28/04/2010

  • Childrens homes and Schools

    After several years of renting buildings we finally have our own newly built Boys Home, Girls Home, School and Dining block.

    February 2010

  • Dhanya and Remya

    Dhanya and Remya are studying nursing and engineering. A real home sponsored success story!

    31/10/2009

  • Sri Lanka

    We work with a Catholic priest in Sri Lanka helping to provide tuition and sponsorship to children who had been affected by the Tsunami.

    30/04/2010

  • Trivandrum - India

    We purchased and pay for the running costs of 2 ambulances and look after elderly dependents of cancer patients.

    30/04/2010

  • Cows!

    With all the cows we give to Mavelikara families the first female calf born will be given back to us to give to other families, so the help will be ongoing.

    30/04/2010

  • Mavelikara - India

    We continue to offer homes and education to our sponsor children as well as day care facilites for the elderly.

    28/04/2010

  • Meeting Father Terence

    In January 2005 on their way back from a visit to India Pat and Suzy had a stopover in Sri Lanka, which led to an amazing meeting with Father Terence.

    25/02/2005

  • Pat Returns From Visit 41

    Pat returns from her 41st visit and she says a massive thanks to all of you for the generous support which makes all of this possible!

    10/03/2012

  • Elderly drop in centre

    The centres offer shelter, food, companionship and love. Our resident grannies are sponsored and many more ladies drop in for their daily lunch.

    10/06/2010

  • Adopt a Granny

    Our grannies spend their days resting, enjoying each other's company, watching tv, having nutritious food and most importantly of all being loved.

    30/04/2010

  • Regional Cancer Centre

    Our 2 ambulances enable the team to reach the homes of extremely poor cancer patients too sick or poor to attend the hospital for treatment

    30/04/2010

  • Child Sponsorship

    Currently £10 monthly will provide food, vitamin supplements, medical and dental care, clothes, toiletries, and educational costs for a child.

    28/04/2010

  • Visit 37 (January/February 2010)

    The Bishop of Central Kerala formally opened the School, Boys Home, Girls Home, Granny Centre and Dining Block that we have built in Mavelikara.

    20th March 2010

  • Medical work

    We look after the medical needs of children and elderly and provide ambulances so treatment can be given to cancer patients in rural areas.

    28/02/2010

  • Visit 36 (October 2009)

    Local children who come to the new school are from destitute families, generally the total family income will be less than fifty pounds per year.

    30/11/09

  • Visit 35 (February 2009)

    The new grannies in our "Adopt a Granny" scheme are wonderful! They don't have much space at the moment but seem really happy to be together.

    31/03/09

  • Regional cancer centre study day

    Pat and one of our long term sponsors Preb. Peter Speck gave presentations at the Regional Cancer Centre.

    17/11/2008

  • Visit 34 (August 2008)

    Educationally the standard of our school children is increasing rapidly, they were all well behind for their age but this has now changed.

    30/09/2008

  • Visit 33 (January/February 2008)

    We provided a second new ambulance for the Palliative Care Team, which takes a doctor, nurses and medication to terminally ill cancer patients.

    25/03/2008

  • Visit 32 (August 2007)

    In Sri Lanka our work with families who have been affected by the Tsunami continues, we are now sponsoring the educational needs of 33 children.

    01/10/07

  • Visit 31 (November 2006)

    We have arranged and paid for the purchase of about an acre of land and plans are in place to build a Boys Home, Girls Home and a small school.

    01/12/06

Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Standards & Compliance

The Vidiyal Trust is committed to meeting the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) when developing our site and web sites for our clients. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) that helps developers make web sites accessible to people with special needs, people with visual, hearing, cognitive and motor impairments. Our website complies with the WCAG Priority 2 (AA) guidelines as a minimum. Below is a list of standards that we adhere to:-

  • WCAG Priority 2 (AA)
  • Section 508
  • Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)
  • XHTML 1.1
  • CSS 2.1

Accessibility Features:

Our websites are designed with the following accessibility features in mind:-

  • Primary site navigation is located at the top of each page.
  • Sitemap navigation is located at the bottom of each page.
  • Secondary navigation elements are located on the left of each page.
  • A home page link is available on each page by clicking The Vidiyal Trust logo.
  • Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists and styled with CSS.
  • We use relative font sizes on our websites so text can be increased or decreased using your browser.
  • Our website conforms to the XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard.
  • Some links have 'title' attributes, which describes the link in more detail and provides context.
  • Links on the same page with the same text, will always point to the same location unless differentiated with the 'title' attribute.
  • To aid screen readers, forms have labels associated with their controls.
  • We try to use clear and simple language.
  • We use alternative ('alt') text for all our images that convey information to the user. The alt text we use provides context to the user. Images used for design purposes only, will have empty alternative text.
  • Our web pages are designed so that they can be viewed at a minimum screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels.
  • Our site doe not include blinking text or images, and nothing on this site will cause your screen to flicker.
  • This site utilises a small amount of JavaScript to enhance the user experience. If you your browser software does not fully support JavaScript or it has been disabled, the core functionality of the site will still be available.
  • We may have PDF's that are downloadable from the site. If we do, the pdf content will be readable by screen readers.
  • Our site has been checked using the HiSoftware® Cynthia tool.

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Access Keys

Most browsers support the use of access keys to immediately jump to specific parts of the website using the keyboard. This site follows the government recommendation for access keys which are listed below:-

  • S - Skip navigation
  • 1 - Home page
  • 2 - What's new
  • 3 - Site map
  • 4 - Search
  • 5 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
  • 6 - Help
  • 7 - Complaints procedure
  • 8 - Terms and conditions
  • 9 - Feedback form
  • 0 - Access key details

In addition to these we have access keys specific to our site and are listed below:-

  • a - About Us
  • w - What We Do
  • h - Helping You
  • p - Partners
  • c - Contact Us

To invoke an access key requires pressing a specific keyboard combination, which depends on what type of web browser you are using.

  • Internet Explorer - Alt & access key, followed by Enter.
  • Firefox 1.5 and below, Mozilla, Netscape 6+ - Alt & access key.
  • Firefox 2+ - Alt & Shift & access key.
  • Opera (Windows and Macintosh) - Shift & Esc & access key.
  • Macintosh browsers - Ctrl & access key.

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Browser Compatibility

We support the popular browser versions being used by the public (% web traffic 3/2009):-

  • Internet Explorer 7 - 25%
  • Internet Explorer 6 - 17.5%
  • Firefox 3 - 42%

We aim to make the site work as much as possible with the following browsers (% web traffic 3/2009):-

  • Internet Explorer 8 - 1.5%
  • Firefox 2 and lower - 4.5%
  • Google Chrome - 4%
  • Opera - 2%
  • Safari - 3%
  • Macintosh browsers

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Keyboard Navigation

Popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox also come with keyboard shortcuts for website navigation:-

  • Tab - Cycle forwards through hyperlinks and form controls.
  • Shift & Tab - Cycle forwards through hyperlinks and form controls.
  • Alt & Right Arrow - Forward movement through browser history.
  • Alt & Left Arrow - Backward movement through browser history.
  • Up Arrow - Scroll up a web page.
  • Down Arrow - Scroll down a web page.
  • Page Up - Screen scroll up web page.
  • Page Down - Screen Scroll down web page.
  • Home - Move to top of a web page.
  • End - Move to bottom of a web page.

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Further information

If you would like further information about our accessibility or if you are experiencing problems with your website and require accessibility advice, please contact our accessibility team here at via:-

Phone 07985 212335
Email info@vidiyaltrust.org.uk

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